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The recent mayhem on London Bridge should remind everyone of the eternal evil of Islamic terrorism. On November 29, Usman Khan, a supposedly former terrorist, wounded three people and fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, two young Britons who — in an excruciating irony — participated in that day’s meeting (near the bridge) of Learning Together, an organization that claims to rehabilitate terrorists. Khan, 28, was considered one of its model students. As Giulio Meotti recalled in a chilling essay for the Gatestone Institute, Khan wrote glowingly about his experiences with this outfit. “Learning Together is about opening minds,...

“I’ve known him for 35 years, I grew up with him. It’s 100% him. He lives in Wales, he has four kids and his partner,” the man said. [snip] Earlier Monday morning Osborne was arrested on terrorism and attempted murder charges. Witnesses say that after the attack he shouted, “I’m going to kill all Muslims – I did my bit.”

Yesterday following the horrific terror attack in London, which left 5 dead including an American tourist and 20 injured, British journalist Tommy Robinson unloaded on other reporters at the scene of the attack in front of the Parliament Building. Tommy Robinson, a former English Defense League leader, ripped into liberal politicians who have opened the doors to Islamic terror attacks in the UK. During an interview with Rebel Media, Robinson criticized the political leaders of Britain and their choice to allow open borders in which millions of largely unvetted migrants take advantage of. The reporter asks Robinson why he is...

Descriptions of the alleged plot uncovered by British authorities have distinct echoes of the so-called Operation Bojinka, an attempt by supporters of al Qaeda in the mid-1990s to simultaneously destroy airliners over the Pacific using liquid explosives. The explosives, which can be hidden in a small bottle, like those used for contact lens solution, are hard to detect, and were originally developed by Yousef, whose uncle, Mohammed, was the chief architect of the 9/11 attacks. In December 1994, Yousef tested his device using a fraction of the explosives planned for the main bombs. Halfway through the short flight, Yousef disappeared...

How could 62,040,606 Americans get it so wrong? So wailed a tee-shirt slogan last November. The reference, of course, was to the votes garnered by US President George Bush, which gave him a second term. If something does not happen to change attitudes — and very quickly at that — I expect to see another tee-shirt on my next trip to London bearing the slogan: How could 1.6 million Muslims get it so wrong? In the wake of the 7/7 London bombings (and the me-too attempt a week later), everyone expected the Muslim community in Britain to be contrite about...

An Indian origin doctor in Britain was pelted with stones and verbally abused by a gang of youths in a racially motivated attack following the London bombings. Yashen Maharaj, 28, who was attacked on July 23, had worked as part of Medway National Health Service Trust's standby team to treat victims of the July 7 London bombings. "The doctor was verbally abused and more disturbingly had missiles, including large stones and rocks thrown at him, one of which hit the doctor on the back," a hospital spokeswoman said. Maharaj continued to attend his duties but declined to talks to newsmen....

Part I: Welcome to LondonistanSpeaking of the ISI's ability to calibrate terrorism, consider the events of 7/7 and 7/21.Immediately after 7/7, it became obvious that there were plenty of Pakistani links, and this put General Musharraf in the hot seat. He responded with bluster that British terrorism was home-grown, and that it had nothing in particular to do with Pakistan.How could Pakistan prove its injured innocence? The ISI came up with a brilliant plan: Pakistanis have clearly learned the art of diplomatic theatre from their friends the Chinese. They would get hold of a couple of naïve 'sleepers' suffused...

The July suicide bombings in London were yet another horrifying reminder of the dreadful tactic perpetrated by Islamic jihadists in their holy war. To be sure, Israeli citizens have long known the nightmare of suicide bombing – and Iraqis, unfortunately, have become acquainted with it daily. What exactly is inside the mind of the Islamic suicide bomber? What impulse motivates a human being, who supposedly believes in God, to blow himself up alongside innocent people? To discuss these and other questions with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests today are: Jessica Stern, an expert on...

BRITISH officials are trying to get a key suspect in the London bombings extradited from Italy, as figures show a sudden and dramatic rise in religious hate crimes. Ministers in London say they are trying to get Hamdi Issac, also known as Osman Hussain, extradited as fast as possible so British police can quiz him along with the three other primary suspects in the case. The four men, three of whom were held in Britain last week, are suspected of having carried out botched attempted suicide bombings on tube trains and a bus on July 21, in which no one...

Many Muslims in Britain commend the performance of their prime minister in the aftermath of the London bombings, according to a poll by MORI. 56 per cent of Muslim respondents approve of the way Tony Blair is handling the response to the terrorist attacks. On Jul. 7, four blasts in London killed at least 53 people and injured 700 more. Investigators say three British nationals of Pakistani descent and a Jamaican-born man were responsible for the explosions at three underground stations and a double-decker bus. Authorities believe the event was a coordinated suicide bombing, the first to ever occur in...

British Police Pressing Bombing Suspect in Drive to Find AccomplicesBy David Rising Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 28, 2005 LONDON (AP) - Police are working urgently to break suspected bomber Yasin Hassan Omar, drawing on years of experience in fighting the Irish Republican Army as they seek clues to help them hunt down at least three other bombers. But Omar - who was apparently prepared to die for his beliefs - represents a new challenge for British police, who have never before been confronted by suicide bombers on their soil. The 24-year-old Somali Muslim is accused of trying to blow...

Arrest breakthrough in London bomb hunt By Bob Sherwood and Frederick Studemann in LondonPublished: July 27 2005 15:17 | Last updated: July 27 2005 21:15Yasin Hassan Omar, one of the men suspected of trying to detonate bombs on London's transport network, was arrested on Wednesday following Britain's biggest manhunt. The arrest of the 24-year-old Somali is potentially the most significant breakthrough in the investigation into last Thursday's botched bomb attacks. Mr Omar, suspected of trying to detonate a bomb near Warren Street Underground station, was seized in an early morning raid on a house in Birmingham where police used a...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharrf today said al-Qaeda's command and communication system has been eliminated, and that the network could not have orchestrated terrorist attacks in London, Egypt or elsewhere from Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf's remarks followed reports that Egyptian police are looking for six Pakistanis as the probe widens into the deadly weekend bombings in Egypt's resort town of Sharm el-Sheik. Musharraf told journalists in the eastern city of Lahore that al-Qaeda "sanctuaries" in Pakistan's rugged tribal regions have been overrun, and that security forces have captured 700 of its fighters. However, Musharraf said small groups of al-Qaida militants might...

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Police investigators said Monday that they were searching for six Pakistani men as the probe into the weekend's terrorist attack at this Red Sea resort widened. Police were circulating photographs of the six, who have apparently been missing since before the attacks, at checkpoints in and around this southern Sinai resort city. An Associated Press correspondent who saw the images said the men appeared to be between the ages of 20 and 30. The involvement of Pakistanis in the attack in Sharm el-Sheik would be unprecedented, as non-Egyptians have rarely been linked to attacks here. It...

Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that the US was impotent as far as the global war on terrorism was concerned. He said that the US was adopting double standards, as it attacked Iraq on the pretext of installation of democracy, and on the other hand, it was hands in glove with a military dictator in Pakistan. "By using the pretext of democracy to invade Iraq, while backing a military dictator in Pakistan or a tyrant in Uzbekistan, the US double standards cause Muslim alienation," the Daily Times quoted him as saying. He further said: "The US and Israel were...

In the 1950s, the British people did not know that there was a new country called Pakistan. They were shocked into its existence after Fazal Mahmood, the great bowler, almost single-handedly defeated England at the Oval with his unplayable leg cutters. Even in the ’60s, the profile of the immigrant in the minds of the people was a confused one. In fact the image of the new immigrant in Enoch Powell’s framework was that of a West Indian. If you visited the street in Wolverhampton where Powell lived you would understand why. The once very English street had been taken...

On The London Attacks Chuck Pierce Dear Friends: I was awakened this morning at 4:30 am, unable to breathe. Around 5 am, the Lord told me to turn on the television and watch the news. I had been praying about our trip to England that I leave on this afternoon. When I turned on the news, Tony Blair was making the statement that London has been attacked by terrorists. The underground transportation network and bus network in central London had been suspended due to several bombings. Actually, the bus that was shown on the news that had been attacked was...

Here are the profiles of the four who are suspected of carrying out the first suicide bombings in Britain, in which at least 52 people have died. At least three were young British-born men with Pakistan backgrounds who lived near Leeds. The fourth is believed to have come from Luton. The youngest was 18, and the oldest 30. Documents belonging to the four were recovered at the scene of the four blasts. Shehzad Tanweer, 22, of Beeston, Leeds, is believed to have been the Liverpool Street bomber, killing six other people. A cricket-loving sports science graduate who was described as...

Some believe the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were so traumatic that the U.S. government and society have unalterably changed. Others suggest that Sept. 11 alone was not enough to adapt U.S. foreign policy for the transnational and national threats of the next 50 years. For the latter, another "shoe" needs to drop for the U.S. government to make dramatic and sustained changes in U.S. foreign policy, the sort made as the Cold War commenced. Last Thursday, putative Islamists detonated four bombs in London's public transportation system and another on an iconic double-decker bus, all within a short period of...

In the wake of the 7/7 London bombings many politicians and pundits have raced to renounce the phrase “Islamic terrorism.” A London Anglican priest named Paul Hawkins said in a sermon: “We can name the people who did these things as criminals or terrorists. We must not name them as Muslims.” It may seem odd to deny to the likely perpetrators of the bombings the name that they themselves prize above all others, and it is certainly a disservice to any genuine Muslim reformers who might be trying to identify and root out the causes of violence from within Islam,...